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Erscheinungsdatum: 1802
Anbieter: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition. 2 large folding maps. 4to. Modern half morocco, clumsy repair to title-page, scattered foxing throughout. iv, xxvi, 195pp. London, W. Bulmer & Co., Horneman was one of the unlucky four sent out by the African Association to find the source of the Niger and the direction of its flow. During his first expedition he reached Murzuk, but was forced to retreat to Tripoli. On his second attempt however he died somewhere on the Niger, without being able to inform the world of his accomplishments. Cox I, p398.
Verlag: London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1802, 1802
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First English edition; originally published in German in 1801. The accounts of Horneman (1772-1800), "the first European in modern times to traverse the north-eastern Sahara" (Ency. Brit.). He originally set out from Cairo to explore the Niger and locate its source on behalf of the African Association in London. This copy was gifted to the Aggrey House by Major Hanns Vischer (1876-1945), the Swiss-born British Africanist and colonial educationist. Aggrey House was a London hostel for African students established by the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP) in collaboration with the Colonial Office in 1934; Vischer presented this copy to the hostel's library that same year. However, the support of the Colonial Office made Aggrey House "part of a wider debate about the place of the politics of empire in Britain", in particular as it was seen as a rival of the West African Students' Union (WASU) hostel (Rosenhaft, Africa in Europe, p.86). While the Colonial Office claimed it sought to create "an African Club in London", "a real home" for Africans studying in Britain (Whittall, in Africa in Europe, p.84), WASU saw the Colonial Office's involvement to be an attempt to influence and control colonial students (WASU, The Truth About Aggrey House, n.p.). Cox I p. 398; Embacher, pp. 150-1; Henze II p. 624-628; Howgego I H100; Ibrahim-Hilmy I 309. Quarto (269 x 214 mm). Early 20th-century red-brown half calf, raised bands to spine, titles and decorations to spine gilt, buff boards block-printed with stylised floral designs in green, white, and yellow, same design to endpapers. 2 partially coloured engraved folding maps by James Rennell. Bookplate of the Aggrey House to recto of front free endpaper; black ink stamps of the same to verso of front free endpaper and recto of rear free endpaper; accession number in white to tail of spine and in blue ink to title page. Spine sunned, corners and edges of boards slightly bumped and worn, split to top of front free endpaper repaired with archival tape to both recto and verso, small chip on front free endpaper fore edge prelims, endmatter, and map-adjacent leaves lightly foxed, occasional minor spotting throughout, short closed tear to stub of first folding map.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1802
Anbieter: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
from Cairo to Mourzouk, the Capital of the Kingdom of Fezzan, in Africa.First edition. 2 large folding maps. 4to. Contemporary quarter calf, rubbed. iv, xxvi, 195pp. W. Bulmer & Co., London, Horneman was one of the unlucky four sent out by the African Association to find the source of the Niger and the direction of its flow. During his first expedition he reached Murzuk, but was forced to retreat to Tripoli. On his second attempt however he died somewhere on the Niger, without being able to inform the world of his accomplishments. Cox I, p398.